Word: restful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that most of us think of them as a way for old folks on deflated incomes to buy municipal bonds and save a few tax dollars. Now it appears that it is a method for conniving lawyers and those with know-how to reap undeserved profits while depriving the rest of us of revenue that should have been used for our monumental governmental deficits...
...declared equally emotional Council President George Forbes: "If there is default, it will rest squarely on the shoulders of the mayor of Cleveland." A normally calm professional financial adviser to the city clenched his fist. "It's driving me crazy," he said. "This is a political default. It's not a question of finances." Thus Cleveland last week became the first major city since the Great Depression to default. And it did so not because the situation was beyond saving, but because the mayor, councilmen and bankers went into a tizzy of bickering...
...rest is hysteria, as Kermit might say. The Muppets did guest appearances for everyone who had air time, and were well established by the time Sesame Street took form. Henson had everything except his own series, and this the networks refused to provide unless it was aimed strictly at children. Finally the FCC opened the 7:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. slot to local programming suitable for both children and adults, and HA! bypassed the networks by signing an extraordinary deal with Lord Grade's ACC group: 24 shows a year, international syndication, a healthy budget and complete artistic...
...taken seriously. If they have any useful function it is to spark Wiesel into passages that recall Isaac Bashevis Singer's definition of Jews as "a people who can't sleep themselves and let nobody else sleep." While Elie Wiesel lives and writes, there will be no rest for the wicked, the uncaring or any one else...
...Carter tried to whip up a moral crusade for energy conservation, much of the country seemed to have perfected the knack of shrugging off the alarms of crisis. It was easy to read that mood as indifference, but it is more reasonable to suppose the country just needed a rest...